Hospital Out of Hours Team Leader

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust; Scunthorpe; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider seeks an Out of Hours Team Leader for the night shift at Diana Princess of Wales Hospital. This role involves managing a team of Hospital Support Assistants, ensuring compliance with NHS cleaning standards, and maintaining staff training. The candidate should possess experience in cleaning and have strong knowledge of hygiene practices. A flexible working environment and continuous development opportunities are offered, making it an excellent position for those looking to advance in healthcare.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Continuous training and development

Qualifications

• General education with experience of food hygiene and domestic work.
• Strong understanding of cleaning and catering procedures.
• Experience of working in a healthcare environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of Hospital Support Assistants/Deep Clean Assistants.
• Ensure staff training is up-to-date.
• Maintain the highest standards of patient care.

Skills

Knowledge of NHS cleaning routines

Experience in cleaning, linen, deep cleaning

Food hygiene knowledge

Education

General education with experience in food hygiene

NVQ level 2

Job description

Go back Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust

Hospital Out of Hours Team Leader

The closing date is 12 January 2026

We are recruiting 2 new roles to the role of Out of Hours Team Leader at Diana Princess of Wales Hospital

This is a contracted position, Nights, on a two week rota basis

This role is flexible, designed to coordinate and lead the activities of a team/ night shift of Hospital Support Assistants/Deep clean Assistants. The team provides and maintains a full range of Hospital support Assistants & deep clean services, ensuring at all times the highest levels of cleanliness. The staff need to have the proper training, materials and equipment to provide the highest quality service and are compliant with Trust Policy and Procedure.

Whilst a comprehensive training package will give you the skills and knowledge to work effectively as a HSA Team Leader, we want to learn from your application how you can meet the minimum of the essential criteria in our person specification, and perhaps even exceed this minimum standard. We support the continuous development of our staff so regular refreshers of training take place. Developmental and mandatory training will be required, which on occasion may fall during non-working days due to shift patterns, for which you will receive either time off in lieu or additional pay.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of this role include:

• Managing a team of Hospital Support Assistants/Deep Clean Assistants
• Managing and maintaining rotas
• Ensuring staff training is up-to-date
• Covering all areas if and when needed to support HSA role
• Maintaining the highest possible standards of compassionate and professional patient care with particular attention to privacy and dignity.
• Working to the National Standards of Cleanliness
• Managing staff annual leave
• Auditing all area
• Completing sickness return to works with staff
• Training

About us

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Job responsibilities

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well‑being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

• General education with experience of food hygiene and domestic work
• NVQ level 2

Occup Experience/Abilities

• Knowledge and understanding of cleaning, linen, deep cleaning and catering procedures
• Experience of working in a
• Knowledge of NHS cleaning routines and statutory requirements

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust

£24,937 to £26,598 a yearper annum pro rata